Speaker 1: Seven thirty two at above Krcity Talk Station. Happy Wednesday
Speaker 1: to you and happy welcome back to the fifty five
Speaker 1: CARSC Morning Show from Cincinnati Classical Academy. Doctor Jed Harding's
Speaker 1: Doctor Harding's is good to heav you back on the program.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great to be here. Brian, Good morning.
Speaker 1: How things going in since Sant Classical Academy this school year?
Speaker 2: My friend, Brian, it's just unbelievable. The school continues to
Speaker 2: grow and achieve like none of us could have ever expected.
Speaker 2: We're you know, we've got we're our third year, seven
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty students this year, and we're we continue
Speaker 2: to expand twenty five thirty percent growth each year. So
Speaker 2: next year we've got nine hundred and fifty students coming in.
Speaker 1: Wow, which is yeah, and that's our fourth and that
Speaker 1: does not satisfy the demand, does it. You have nine
Speaker 1: hun and fifty, but I bet there's a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of of families and children that weren't able to get
Speaker 1: in because you have a limited number of spaces.
Speaker 2: Right, That's right. Nine to fifty is going to be
Speaker 2: our capacity next year, but then the wait list is
Speaker 2: still four hundred and four hundred and five hundred students,
Speaker 2: So yeah, well as practively as we can. And that's
Speaker 2: that's been a big problem. We We've spent the last
Speaker 2: five years looking for a campus where we could serve
Speaker 2: our eventual enrollment of thirteen hundred students, but that's been
Speaker 2: really difficult on a charter school budget. But we have
Speaker 2: some big news from this past fall that we finally
Speaker 2: found that campus solution and we purchased the property we've
Speaker 2: been renting and renting, the former Olsh School, and that's
Speaker 2: thirty acres. And then we also acquired a nine acre
Speaker 2: campus in Blue Ash, the former Belcan building, and are
Speaker 2: remodeling a one hundred thousand square foot office building there
Speaker 2: to serve as a home for our middle and upper schools. Guys.
Speaker 1: Cool, And those are the grades you're going to be added?
Speaker 1: I guess it's grades five through twelve from from at
Speaker 1: least the materials that I'm looking at presently. Are you
Speaker 1: still serving grades K through eight?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's correct. It's K through eight this year, and
Speaker 2: then next year we're going to add the ninth grade,
Speaker 2: our first high school class, and they're they're going to
Speaker 2: be going to school at the new campus and Blue
Speaker 2: Ash So it's really exciting.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess, you know, you have a freshman class
Speaker 1: and what you got to I guess if they stick around,
Speaker 1: you'll be adding the additional high school years after that.
Speaker 1: So to be able to stay with this unbelievably. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's a traditional classic liberal education. If you're familiar with
Speaker 1: Hillsdale College, folks, it's the same kind of thing, classic
Speaker 1: liberal education, focusing all the on all the important skills
Speaker 1: and the classic ways they do it phonics, for example,
Speaker 1: the Singapore math core knowledge sequence, Latin reading classes, classics.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I'm so pleased that this is
Speaker 1: this is this type of education even still exists, sir.
Speaker 1: And obviously if you build it, they will come. The
Speaker 1: number of students that want to get in is just
Speaker 1: an illustration that this there's a huge demand out here
Speaker 1: in the world to get you know, to go back
Speaker 1: to the basics and go to a classic liberal education
Speaker 1: where you actually learn something and have these foundational building
Speaker 1: blocks to survive and thrive in the world.
Speaker 2: Yep, since that's only public classical school bringing the best
Speaker 2: of Western civilization direct to the people.
Speaker 1: All right, Tuition free, it's intuition free, and I think
Speaker 1: that's an important component. It's also important to note that
Speaker 1: since Sant Classical Academy receives some state funding but only
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars per student, you don't get any property taxes,
Speaker 1: and that funding is only going to cover sixty percent
Speaker 1: of the cost required to provide educational facilities. So there
Speaker 1: needs to be more money there. You can't even do
Speaker 1: a public levee for to service the school. So ergo,
Speaker 1: if you're building these new facilities in Blue Ash, you
Speaker 1: need some help. Tell my listeners about the Raise the
Speaker 1: Torch campaign.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So the property purchase, which was thirteen million dollars
Speaker 2: and then the construction cost everything total was financed by
Speaker 2: twenty nine million dollars in tax examponds. But that only
Speaker 2: gets us, It gets us most of the way there.
Speaker 2: But we need to raise at least another four million
Speaker 2: dollars to complete construction of our campus to serve you know,
Speaker 2: K through twelve with extracurriculars and that kind of thing. So,
Speaker 2: and it's funny, Brian, you know, the school has really
Speaker 2: never had a major benefactor. Someone who says, you know,
Speaker 2: here's a million dollars, five million dollars go create my
Speaker 2: dream of a classical school. It hasn't happened. It's really
Speaker 2: been grassroots effort with one hundred dollars yere, one thousand
Speaker 2: dollars there, ten thousand there. But we haven't given up
Speaker 2: on a dream that there are major benefactors out there
Speaker 2: who understand what we're doing, who appreciate what Hillsdale College
Speaker 2: is doing for the Cincinnati community and what a great
Speaker 2: success story this has been.
Speaker 1: In this this is going to lose magnets for our region.
Speaker 1: I mean, the idea that you have this wonderful institution
Speaker 1: of learning and I even want to call it higher
Speaker 1: learning even though we're like talking about K through eight
Speaker 1: right now, but the demands there, but that it exists,
Speaker 1: that it is a it is it is truly a
Speaker 1: magnet for folks to want to, you know, maybe move here.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's an idea that could be expanded. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine if the if Ohio just adopted this wonderful
Speaker 1: education process among even in its public schools, I mean,
Speaker 1: the curriculums right there for all to enjoy. Just adopt it,
Speaker 1: you will demonstrably the number one school in the area.
Speaker 1: You will be turning out these brilliant young people who
Speaker 1: are prepared to meet the challenges of life. That's a
Speaker 1: magnet and that's a that's a it's a model for
Speaker 1: others to follow. So this is an important thing to fund,
Speaker 1: I would argue to my listeners.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And it's it's a movement that I mean, this
Speaker 2: transcends consideration just of where your kids go to school.
Speaker 2: We are our school in particular, is helping to lead
Speaker 2: and build a national movement. Yes, I mean we're having
Speaker 2: national impact in Ohio alone. There have been four more
Speaker 2: schools that of these schools that have been created in
Speaker 2: our wake, inspired by our success and our leadership. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it's about restoring education that's needed for a free thinking
Speaker 2: and self governing citizenry. It's not you know. So the
Speaker 2: aims are really high again, tuition free.
Speaker 1: They could use all the help they can get. And
Speaker 1: because you are a five oh one three C entity,
Speaker 1: these donations to the Raise of Torch Foundation or fund
Speaker 1: qualify as tax deductible for tax purposes, right, that's right, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: Well I can encourage my listeners enough to help this
Speaker 1: process out. The idea of just motivating others to follow
Speaker 1: in your path is worthy of any donation. People can
Speaker 1: give and maybe one of my listeners out there can
Speaker 1: be that wealthy philanthropist who understands and gets the point
Speaker 1: of all this and maybe write a check for a
Speaker 1: million dollars to help you meet your goals with raise
Speaker 1: the Torch. That would be nice.
Speaker 2: We never give up on the dream, you know, Brian.
Speaker 2: People love to sit around and write about problems in
Speaker 2: this country and say that, you know, kids don't know
Speaker 2: how to think any more. This school's doing something about it.
Speaker 2: Think anyone who's interested can visit sincey Classchool dot org
Speaker 2: click on the giving page to learn about our campus
Speaker 2: development how they can support us with these the Torch campaign.
Speaker 1: You anticipated my question, how do people help out since
Speaker 1: with the y Classical dot org. Please do I mean
Speaker 1: ten bucks? They'll take it. You got a million dollars
Speaker 1: you want to don eight they'll definitely take it. Doctor
Speaker 1: Jed Hardings, thank you for all that you do and
Speaker 1: all the teachers at since Anti Classical Academy keep up
Speaker 1: the wonderful work. I wish you all the well wishes
Speaker 1: that I can possibly wish you in terms of the
Speaker 1: fundraising and for the future of the young people that
Speaker 1: you are teaching.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot Brian.
Speaker 1: Anytime, doctor, Anytime's great having you on seven forty right
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